A recent report by the Cape Coast Metro Education Directorate has revealed that only 52.31 percent of pupils in public schools within the Cape Coast Metro Directorate passed the 2020 BECE, as against 82.56% of pupils in the private school sector within the metropolis.
The report, also revealed that poor attitude of pupils towards learning, pupils’ poor approach to answering questions, fear and anxiety during exams on the part of candidates and some teachers’ difficulty in handling some presumed difficult topics like geography in the classroom led to pupils failing in the 2020 BECE.
Speaking at a day’s stakeholder engagement for head teachers in the Cape Coast Metro Education directorate to find solutions in addressing the challenge, a Research Fellow with the Institute for Educational Planning and Administration at the University of Cape Coast, Dr. Alfred Ampah-Mensah indicated that the poor performance raises a lot of issues which head teachers have to deal with.
This he noted will include headteachers acting as decisive leaders in promoting learning in their schools while ensuring that their schools are organized in such a manner that seeks to promote teaching and learning.
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According to Dr. Ampah-Mensah, the responsibilities of the head teacher must not be limited to supervising but must include inculcating values of learning in the school community. These he noted when applied correctly can produce some tremendeous improvement.
On improving the performance of pupils’ performance in the BECE, Director General of the UNESCO Category II Institute for Educational Planning and Administration, Dr. Michael Boakye-Yiadom said the role of school leadership must be enhanced to achieve successful results adding that the IEPA is ready to support the Metro Education Unit to improve the leadership roles of head teachers in the metropolis.
According to him one of the key mandates of the IEPA is to mentor educational administrators by equipping them with the right resources and skills to manage their institutions in a manner that produces positive results. He called for effective collaboration between the educational stakeholders within the metropolis to ensure there are fruitful outcomes in the future.
Source: Anthony Sasu Ayisadu/ATLFMNEWS
